Announcements

Announcements

New Initiative: Engaging Industry to ISBF through Sponsorship

To better fulfill the society’s mission, we are reorganizing the ISBF website to facilitate more interaction throughout the biofabrication community. As such, we have dedicated a Sponsors’ Section to provide up-to-date information on new tools and products available for research. This Sponsors’ Section will provide distinguished industry partners and leaders to showcase their products and technologies.

The 2019 Biofabrication Conference will be held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA from October 20-22, 2019. Please mark you calendar to attend the world’s largest scientific conference on Biofabrication. The meeting information will be forthcoming.

Newly Appointed Officers and Committees

The newly appointed ISBF officers and Board of Directors are committed to grow the Biofabrication community by promoting advances in research development, education and training, and translating technological innovations to biomedical and clinical applications. As such, the Society’s committees have been expanded to facilitate increased activities to achieve this goal. Planned activities of the ISBF committees are shown below.

Awards Committee will continue to identify and recognize the contributions of ISBF members with expanded award categories.

External Affairs Committee will enhance interactions with other professional societies to facilitate collaboration.

Communication and Web Contents Committee will find ways to better communicate with the members of ISBF and provide informative contents.

Education Committee will develop programs and activities for young investigators to assist with networking and provide guidance with their career development.

Conference Committee will work with conference chairs to organize successful meetings that would benefit all attendees.

Industry Relations Committee will engage biofabrication related companies and organizations to ISBF for introducing new and innovative research tools, exchanging knowledge and facilitating collaborations.

Membership Committee will actively recruit young and new members to expand the ISBF membership globally, in terms of number and diversity.

The ISBF Awards Committee is happy to announce the 2018 Award winners. The awards will be presented at the 2018 Biofabrication Conference in Würzburg, Germany. This information is also posted on the ISBF and 2018 Biofabrication Conference websites.

The WFIRM’s Awards Committee is happy to announce the 2018 Young Investigator Award winner. The award will be presented at the 2018 Biofabrication Conference in Würzburg, Germany. This information is also posted on the ISBF and 2018 Biofabrication Conference websites.

The ISBF Board of Directors is happy to announce that Tim Woodfield, Marcy Zenobi-Wong, and Giovanni Vozzi have been unanimously selected as President-Elect, Secretary General, and Treasurer of ISBF, respectively. They will join James Yoo, incoming President, effective January 1, 2019 for a 3 year term ending on December 31, 2021. Congratulations to the newly elected Executive Board members!

2020 Meeting Application is now live

The International Society for Biofabrication is now accepting meeting applications for year 2020. The ISBF Conference is usually held in October and needs to include the support of a Conference Organizing Committee. If you are interested, please complete the Meeting Host Application and return to Tim Woodfield at tim.woodfield@otago.ac.nz before September 14, 2018.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved the establishment of a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) with the topic “Biofabrication: from the fundamentals to functional tissue models”. The new CRC will receive a total of €10 million in funding for an initial four-year period, starting on 1 January 2018, with the perspective of a maximum funding over 12 years after re-evaluation every 4 years.

The CRC was granted to a consortium between the universities of Würzburg, Erlangen-Nürnberg and Bayreuth. Spokesperson of the CRC is Prof. Jürgen Groll from the University of Würzburg (email: trr225@fmz.uni-wuerzburg.de). The CRC comprises 18 projects that are grouped in the three areas bioinks, method development and tissue models, with an initial focus in the advancememt of tailored bioinks and methodology for printing and characterization and the ultimate goal to generate functional human tissue equivalents.

PhD positions will be available from January 2018 on in different topics of biofabrication at the 3 universities. Contacts are Prof. Jürgen Groll (spokesman, contact person for the University of Würzburg), Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (contact person for the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Thomas Scheibel (contact person for the University of Bayreuth).